Back in the day (cue time travel music) flight attendants were nothing more than hot pants wearing playboy bunnies in the sky. Today day things are so much different. Now if you try to get on a plane in hot pants they boot your pants off the plane.
I just find it funny to think that at one time airlines were nothing more than smoky mens clubs. watch the video below to take a trip back. More here.
Where the hell was my guidance counselor when I was looking as possible vocations? Not once did they mention you could make card houses for a living. I would have loved to sit around all day stacking cards on top of one another. I still to this day enjoy playing with blocks and Legos. I am sure cards would have been fun as well. I think the largest card house I ever built used three and a half decks before it collapsed. Now after seeing Bryan Berg I think I am going to have to quit my job and get back into card stacking.
Bryan has a web site at cardstacker.com. To date his tallest building is over 25 feet tall, and yes of course he is in the Guinness book of world records. He has even written a book on how to stack cards. I supposed it makes sense to share the secret. It is only fun at the top if it is a challenge to stay there. If you are making 25 foot tall structures and the best the next person can do is four feet there is not much competition. Most everyone that is successful enjoys a good challenge.
On YouTube there is a video from Showtime where he builds the Rhode Island state capital. There is also a YouTube video of his recent world record 25 foot building.
I saw this picture today and just had to share. I guess if you have a collection of trailer homes you can do more with them then place them in rows with corvettes on blocks out front. Who knew?
Oh am I excited. The golden nectar know as mead is making a come back! Well at least Slate says so in this story. I love mead. I have a friend from high school that brews it from time to time. He has made some nasty funk but in general it is sweetness from heavens door. When the planets align just so he makes a batch that will not only make the taste buds dance with delight but you will be picking those taste buds up off the floor after a few tankards because it can pack one hell of a kick.
The Slate article claims it may never hit main stream like wine because of its bad image at renaissance festivals and the fact that it is hard to align it with a meal like beer and wine. Well they are cracked. Give me a bonfire and a semi cold mug of mead and I could care less if you think it does not go with chicken or kangaroo.
I have never seen mead in a store but then again I live a little in the trees so the liquor selection is dominated by some swill they call Budweiser. I am sure store mead will not delight me the way the home brew does but it would be nice to be able to pick up a pint from time to time. some day I will venture into the brewing hobby but as of yet this has not happen.
I have an uncle that brews wine as well. From time to time he creates a little magic but none of it compares to a well crafted mead. I am convinced he brews just to torture others. If he sees a recipe that is a little off the wall he jumps on it and then makes every victim… I mean guest try a glass. Lets just say that banana or potato and onion wine are as terrible as they sound. I guess you can make wine out of anything, I am just not sure you should.
I was sitting in a meeting today staring at the conference phone attempting to remain conscious and a question bubbled to the surface.
If you use one of these phones to call up for some phone sex do they bill you extra because it is group sex?
The meetings I am in are rather untaxing and do not really keep the mind from pondering such things.
This is how it works Timmy. First you go out and buy beer in square bottles. When you get home you drink the beer. After the beer is gone you place the empty bottles in a corner. Once the corner is full and your wife complains of a sour stink you start building. I would build a drinking shed, a place to store more empty bottles and enjoy the drinking you do. It will be a monument to your drinking and you can feel like you are saving the planet. This is a freaking brilliant idea! It really is too damn bad it died in the 60s.
This article on the Heineken WOBO (world bottle) was on Digg Friday. It is a great freaking idea. Instead of demanding a third break light on cars why does the government not set a law that states all glass bottles must be square and lock together. Not that I am a big fan of government intervention but they already dick with more stuff than they should so they might as well be useful.
Even if the bottles do not get used they can still be recycled so you are not harming systems already in place. In Michigan you might not want to use them as each “brick” would cost you a dime because of their bottle deposit. If every glass bottle was built to the same square size some real great things could be done. I can not imagine a bottle like this would double the packaging cost for a company. Hell is might even help boost sales of the products that use a multi use bottle. Everyone wants to do their little part to reduce waste and even if they do not plan to use the bottles themselves I bet a neighbor would.
This is just a fabulous idea and I want to see it come back. Now if I just knew how to get a movement like this started? You can sort of build and do this same thing with current odd sized round bottles but with these “World Bottles” it just looks better and does have a hippy quality to it. With World Bottles the neck of one bottle inserts into a dimple in the bottom of the one next and they all are held together with some sort of mastic or adhesive. It works just like glass block.
More info: Wikipedia, Archinect.com
You can call this exercise machine whatever you want. I am going to just be real creative and use one word “stupid”. All the benefits of riding a horse without the need for a stable. Well that and you will never use it more than once, it will throw your back out, your kids will disown you and everyone will just think it is a sex toy anyway. I will not deny there might be some exercise benefits from riding a horse but this product is lame. Everyone seems to just want to be zapped into shape or sit on their hind end to get there.
I stand by that swimming is still the best exercise if you really want to get serious. It tones, strengthens and increases lung capacity. Of course you can not watch TV or eat a donut while you swim.
Allow me to be blunt here. If they really want to sell these things they need to wrap it in leather and strap a dildo on it. Maybe you can just get one from the iJoy|Rides website and retrofit it?
The TSA is a flippin joke and I really doubt anyone would disagree with me. I do not fly much and have always had pretty civil interactions with them. I do however fully understand all the stress and trauma that happens at airports and why some people might get angry there. In Las Vegas this past year I trampled through an endless line for over an hour without a bathroom, drink, chair or a “sorry for the delay”. I wanted to drop kick every bastard I saw with a uniform and I understand and hour long line to get to a security checkpoint is nothing. Hell they did not even fondle my girlfriends breasts or haul me away for questioning there messed up perspective like they did on the linked story. Mostly during my latest trip I felt very sorry for the two little kids that were just in front of me that had nothing to do for an hour but sniff sweaty ass and stare and the pockets of those in front of them. In this little ditty a man has his pregnant wife fondled and humiliated. I might add he did nothing more that question why they made his wife cry. He threw no punches and made no threats. For expressing his discontent he gets arrested, banned from the airport, misses a wedding, fined and the best part is the report filed by the TSA is chuck full of fabrication and BS. He was told when he tried to appeal that they can not watch the video of the incident to see what really happen because it can be inconclusive and they are destroyed after 3 days! I bet if you punch a TSA officer the video would live a whole lot longer than 3 days. Yet if you are just expressing some concerns to an agent who will later lie about the incident the tapes are not kept.
Officer spandex decides to take out his small penis frustrations on some 14 year old kids who caught it on video. He might not actually have a small penis but he has to make up for the fact that the city makes him drive a golf cart instead of a Mustang. He grabs a kid to take away his skateboard because the kid called him dude. Dude is not a bad name and only slightly disrespectful. Certainly no reason to grab the kid or confiscate his board. The sooner law enforcement realizes they “enforce” the law and do not create it as they see fit they will be more respected. Respect is earned never just given. If you demand respect what you are really asking for is submission and that is a whole other thing. As a side note I do not understand this whole skateboard war. Kids/skaters should be smart enough to stay away from regular walking pedestrians and cops should be courteous enough to inform kids where they should go to skate if they are in a poor location, as opposed to throwing them to the ground like they were crazy gun slinging crack heads.
Again the Chicago police beat the shit out of defenseless people. This time it was a an 60 year old man handcuffed to a wheel chair. The guy was drunk, he was rowdy and swore so perhaps handcuffing him to the wheel chair was a good idea so they could address his stab wound. However the 10 strikes finished with a round house punch may have been where the line was crossed. Maybe it’s just me but I don’t think the cops are supposed to had out any justice. The best part is that after the officers vacation… oops I mean suspension, they will be back on the streets doing their impression of Judge Dredd. The story has a video link of this example of fine police work.
This story is so mind numbing stupid it is almost funny. Only funny because this time our law enforcement shows how stupid they can be without killing someone. The idiot law enforcement this time is a woman from Florida. Deputy shit for brains dumped a paraplegic out of a wheelchair onto the floor because she did not believe he was handicapped. Thank Jeebus no one told her the guy was bullet proof. I would hate to see deputy dumbshit prove that one out! I was curious though. The guy was pulled over for a traffic violation? He must have some fancy car he can drive with his damn tongue or something. Once his face is no longer flat from being dumped on the floor maybe he will take me for a spin.
A cop takes lady to jail for some driving violation. She is a little excited in the video but I am not sure she deserved having her face turned into hamburger. The camera in the room was turned off and when it comes back on she is bleeding and seriously messed up. Cop says she fell! Let me get this straight… she fell and broke two of her teeth, broke her nose, beat the shit out of both her eyes, and bruised her arms and legs? I did not see a 7 story flight of stairs in that room? Yes she was hostile but I still am not sure the cops have the legal right to beat you up.
The Seattle law enforcement pecker heads decided to arrest a guy for taking a picture. They were wrong, you can take any picture in public you want. A photographer took a picture of the cops arresting a guy so they arrested him as well stating he could have started a riot and for disturbing the peace. Well they lost a lawsuit and the guy got $8,000. Even so why would they even think this is a crime?
It sounds like the Seattle police are trying to take the worse cops in the country award away from Chicago. This is an article on a Seattle cop that keeps beating people up. Now there is a federal lawsuit being filed after he crushed a lady’s face. Why did he crush her face? Because she shouted some advice to a drunken friend who was being arrested. I guess yelling advice is warrant enough to grab you from behind and throw you to the ground and crush your face. This is my favorite part, according to the assbag officer “she returned to yell at his fellow officer before he intervened again and accidentally dropped her onto the concrete”. How does one “accidentally” drop one to the concrete, I thought these guys were supposed to be trained anyway?
Two kids get in a little scuffle and school. Once the kids were separated the officer tasered the kid even after he was told not to by a superior officer. He was not told once but twice that the extra force was not needed. I suppose he already had his taser out so he figured he might as well use it, idiot! I am going to think like a cop for a second… You know you have to do this because tasers are the same as mouse traps. When you put a live mouse trap away you do not simply “deactivate” it. No you have to set it off with a stick or something. It is just easier and a lot more fun to watch it snap. Tasers are the same.
I need to go cancel my MySpace account before I turn into this kid, yikes! You need not watch all seven minutes of the video. There is no surprise ending and you get the idea one minute in.
I think it is a little sad that this kids family is torturing him so b ut that is what kids do. We have this video of my youngest brother flipping out in South Dakota on a family trip we took to Mt. Rushmore. I should post that sucker if I can find it. Course he would never speak to me again but hey what are brothers for.
I just watched this commercial last night for Wrigley’s new Take 5 gum. I think the commercial is pretty cool. It certainly is unique. What really gets me though is I now have new “gotta have”. I want a room full of ball bearings that I can lay in while I vibrate around to music! Awesome! Much better than McD’s ball room. The web site for the take 5 gum is pretty damn cool as well.
I am not a huge gangster history buff or anything but the site linked below is by far the best collection of Bonnie and Clyde images and information I have stumbled onto in the old WWW. They have coroner photos, victim photos, death car images and every manner of artifact and info you could want to know about Bonnie and Clyde.
The web site gets an F for design but it is still a decent collection. I almost feel bad for them and want to pay a designer to create a decent site. Seems this guy is just a real big fan and has a site to prove it.
The best thing I learned from this is that cops seem less skilled now than in the past. Current law enforcement members break into the wrong homes killing innocent kids, shoot people in wheel chairs multiple times and tazer people to death with “safe” weapons. On this site you can see a lot of images of the “death car” Bonnie and Clyde were shot in. What I find most interesting is most all of the 167 shots fired at the car are grouped very nicely into the driver door and into a basket ball size area through the windshield on the passenger side. So in 1934 six cops were smart enough to setup an ambush, get the right car and shoot at a moving vehicle with pretty decent accuracy. Today I do not think the donut munchers would have the same success.
Oh I also learned that Bonnie was quite the looker! I always imagined her as some lumpy old turd but damn she was a good looking lass.
This is great! A stereo system that makes you barf. It’s even cheaper than most high end systems you might find at Best Buy. A typical barf ray system is only $1,800.
So what we really have here is a non-lethal weapon. Apparently even prolonged exposure can not do any real damage. To do real damage (hearing damage) you have to be exposed to 130 dB and this runs at 125 dB. Seems you can not just run out and put this in any home. You have to meet special requirements like having a strong room. Too bad to because this could stop all breaking and entering. A person breaks into a regular house and hears an alarm and they know they have to act quick because there is a 25% chance the cops will show up in the next three hours. With a barf ray you will be tossing your lunch and running for the door in seconds.
Apparently the sound messes with your equilibrium which causes you to get nauseous. OK now the fatal flaw… if you wear ear plugs you can laugh as you steal everything in the house because the barf ray will have no effect. The attack dogs (wearing ear plugs of course) might still make you want to leave in a hurry but the system itself will cause no problems.
I really think this is a great idea. The system seems like it could be made portable pretty easy. Although I am sure the cops could still manage to misuse this I bet that even the super stupid ones would have a lot harder time killing people using this over the taser.
For more info read this at gizmodo or you can read here at wired.